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Suranne Jones is not going to make any friends in this new retelling of Vanity Fair – as the cold-hearted and snobbish Miss Pinkerton.

The actress will be leading the school for girls and sends young heroine Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) on her way after getting bored of her.

In the first look clip of the upcoming drama, she’s seen biting at Becky and tells her: ‘You forget your station.’

But Becky, with hopes and dreams of a better life for herself, throws down the gauntlet and demands better pay for her work as a languages teacher at the school.

Miss Pinkerton looks down on Becky and her poor background (Picture: ITV)

Unfortunately for her, Miss Pinkerton sees it as the excuse she needs to be rid of the feisty and ‘troublesome’ woman, and calls her bluff – forcing her to head elsewhere.

‘You think that because you are clever, society will overlook your low birth,’ she snidely tells her.

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Becky agrees that she does – and if Becky is anything, it’s determined.

Becky remains completely undeterred and has her eyes on a grander life (Picture: ITV)

Soon she is seen leaving the school and trying her luck elsewhere, starting by preying on the terminally sweet but naïve Amelia, whose become her friend at the school, and more importantly Amelia’s old (and rich) brother.

But as always, things are never that smooth, and over the seven episode mini-series, we follow Becky and her friends as they try to navigate their way through the period surrounding the Battle of Waterloo.

This is the latest in a long line of Vanity Fair adaptations, after being published as a novel by William Makepeace Thackary in 1848.

We’ve already seen a bit of the series – and we can promise it’s brilliant.

Backing up Olivia in the role of Becky is an all-star cast including Claudia Jessie, who plays Amelia, Lovesick’s Johnny Flynn (who plays the hopelessly in love Captain Dobbin), Charlie Rowe as Amelia’s husband-to-be George Osbourne, and Tom Bateman – the mysterious Captain Crawley who could just about threaten everything Becky knows.

Get ready to put your feet up with a cuppa and snuggle in with a jumper, ladies and gents – Autumn programmes are on their way, and it’s going to be a good one.

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Vanity Fair starts next Sunday at 9pm on ITV1.

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